AIA St. Louis 2013 Design Awards

Architecture is invention.
Oscar Niemeyer
A Year of Design
American Institute of Architects/St. Louis Chapter
2013

Craftsmanship
Chair: Steve Morby
The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts
Tom Moore, AIA
Mackey Mitchell Architects
David Hackett
Manchester Hackett & Associates, Inc.

MERIT AWARD Painting St. Louis Public Library – Central Branch□ Paintsmiths of St Louis□
Chris Decarlie Brian Shreckengost Jason Chadborne Joe Prewitt St Louis, Mo□
The painting was impeccable, no runs, no drips, no errors!
It was very uniform and seamless, creating planes
and forms that fit the space and design.
Very consistent coverage - no light spots or
shading variations.
The stain of the woodwork, including the horizontal plank
walls at the main stairway, was consistent.

MERIT AWARD Painting St. Louis Public Library – Central Branch□ Paintsmiths of St Louis□
Chris Decarlie Brian Shreckengost Jason Chadborne Joe Prewitt St Louis, Mo□

HONOR AWARD
Both the mounted signage and
the free standing signs,
particularly them, were crisp
and precise.
The metal plates were probably
laser cut from a computer
program but the connections to
the other components are
precise and seamless.
Impeccable!
All the graphics were precise
and consistent.
Signage Saint Louis Public Library – Central Branch Signage□
Engraphix Architectural Signage, Inc. □ St. Louis, MO BSI□

HONOR AWARD Signage Saint Louis Public Library – Central Branch Signage□
Engraphix Architectural Signage, Inc. □ St. Louis, MO BSI□

DRAWINGS
Jury Chair: Michael Anderson
Artist/Illustrator
Blog Correspondent, Urban Sketchers Midwest
Ms. Robin Hirsch
Artistic Director, Art St. Louis
Richard Reilly
Energy Programs Director, Missouri Botanical Garden
Blogger, The Art of Construction

DISTINGUISHED AWARD The View □ Will Schenck / Cannon Design
University of Colorado Boulder, Recreation Facilities Improvements St. Louis, MO SCI□ □
An example of computer
visualization at its best, this
entry demonstrates the mastery
of powerful digital tools
including Revit, Photoshop,
3DsMax, Google Earth, etc., to
create a sense of awe in a spare
gymnasium interior in its
portrayal of the properties of
light and shadow, the reflective
surface of a wood floor and
specificity of place .

DISTINGUISHED AWARD A Metropolis Appears Christopher Ching / Trivers□ □ St. Louis, MO
This entry, a "20 minute"
drawing exercise done on
location, is an affirming reminder
that the ability to sketch is an
invaluable competency that
allows the individual to design at
any time and any place.

MERIT AWARD Orpheum Clark Keitel / Lawrence Group□ □ St. Louis, MO
The style and tonal range of this artist's exquisitely rendered
elevation study precisely captures the classical spirit of the
detailed ornamentation of this remarkable building.

HONOR AWARD Dedicated to Art Christopher Ching / Trivers□ □ St. Louis, MO
This drawing exemplifies not only the
skillful handling of the most basic of
tools and technique, on location
drawing with pencil and paper, but is
also infused with the inspiration
inherent in great architecture.

UNBUILT
Chair: Rod Kruse, FAIA, LEED AP BD+C
Principal, BNIM Architects
Des Moines, Iowa
Paul Mankins, FAIA, LEED AP
Principal, Substance Architecture
Des Moines, Iowa
Deborah Hauptmann
Chair – Department of Architecture
Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa

Laumeier Sculpture Park Adam Aronson Fine Arts Center Trivers Associates Saint Louis, Mo BSI Constructors□ □ □DISTINCTION
This commissioned work proposes a private gallery space
on an estate in suburban St. Louis.
The project has a very clear plan that organizes the
building into a single open gallery space with a series of
support spaces to one side.
The section and plan organization result in a beautiful and
expressive facility which compliments the balance of the
historic estate.
The plan of this private gallery is simple, clean and direct
while the identifying profile and section scheme (carried
out through materialization) does the ‘work’ for this
building by delivering a recognizable image that is
suitable for a private project of this scale and siting.

Laumeier Sculpture Park Adam Aronson Fine Arts Center Trivers Associates Saint Louis, Mo BSI Constructors□ □ □DISTINCTION

Grand Center Spring Avenue Church
Gluckman Mayner Architects Ann Hamilton Studio Michael Van Valkenburgh□ □
Associates, Inc. Powers Bowersox Associates, Inc. John C. Guenther Architect LLC St.□ □
MERIT AWARD
This inspired commissioned work proposes the transformation of the
“ruins” of a stone church into an exterior garden landscape.
This project – soft, tactile, and highly textured – suggests an
experience that is quiet, contemplative, and spiritual.
This could be a wonderful place for contemplation.
This is a straightforward and beautifully balanced work that
integrates the space of deterioration – in the ruins of an old church,
with a place of growth and renewal – with the landscape renovation.
The work is sensitive and understated and fully expressive.
The remaining question is whether it can retain these qualities when
all the proposed additional and surrounding elements are in place.

MERIT AWARD
precedent study
According to the 17th Century Italian
philosopher Giambattista Vico, the order of
human institutions came as follows: first the
forests, after that the huts, then the
villages, next the cities, and finally the
academies.
The space of the clearing in the forest
stands out for Vico as the first act of
culture, the first mark of the human hand
on the outlaw space of the forest, tied, in
the cultural imaginary, to a desire for
change or revitalization of the landscape
that would make possible the accumulation
of voices from the singular to the many.
Our project builds on a series of
dichotomous relationships that emerge
from this antagonistic yet reciprocal
imagining of the relationship of forest to
clearing: darkness emerging into light,
interiority merging with exteriority.
Project Goal:
To create a contemplative space and experience for
individuals and groups within the stabilized ruin of an
existing church and a completely transformed landscape
of an open space in an urban setting.
existing church ruins
historic church c. 1950
church 2008
church 2001
church 2010
From 1884 until 2001 the Spring Street Church stood as a welcoming edifice, drawing
into its four walls and towards the rafters a congregation of voices in a divided city.
At present, the ruins of the church stand empty in what was once the most
vibrant strip of the city’s entertainment district.
In 2001 a fire burned through those rafters, opening the façade of the church’s limestone
walls to the erosion of time and the effects of weather.
While the history of the church and the adjacent site on which it stands is available to us
only in fragments, the ruins of the church stand as a reminder of its history of gatherings.

MERIT AWARD
Our proposal for reanimating the site hinges on the movement from landscape canopy to
architectural clearing, and inverts interior and exterior space, past and present, as starting points for
considering a future for the space; a future from which we are excluded. We stand at one point in
the continuum of time that spans the life of this site and of this structure; one point on an arc of time
that reaches back to Vico’s forest and one that continues to evolve.
This proposal is about the passage of time
and its effect on the subtle remaking of the
space of the site.
site plan
The landscape is wholly transformed, with access to the site and church on North
Spring Avenue near the intersection of Grandel Square.
A gently sloping and accessible walkway leads into the space, curving gradually to
reach the church.
The ground plane of both the site and the church interior is covered with a mixture of
stone, crushed aggregate, and durable ground cover.
Plantings include randomly placed trees as well as understory trees and
plants.
Climbing vines will envelop the new structural framework at the church
interior, covering the side walls of the church and providing year-round
interest.

MERIT AWARD
existing structural conditions proposed structural design for stabilization of the existing church
study model
The building shell is maintained largely as it currently exists, with openings on the north wall
connecting and allowing passage from the interior space to the redesigned landscape on the north
side of the lot. A new structural system to support the existing walls will be introduced that will allow
for the elimination of the current diagonal bracing, as well as an assembly occupancy of over 300
people.
The structural stabilization of the shell requires the insertion of steel columns at the inside surface of
the walls. The columns are tied together below the ground plane with concrete grade beams. These
columns will in turn be covered by tightly spaced rows of steel rods, which function both as a screen
wall as well as a platform for foliage to grow.
Basic restorative work, including cleaning, repointing & minor repairs, is anticipated at the existing
building walls, site walls and foundation remnants.
The existing wall copings will be replaced with plate steel in keeping with the exposed structure and
screen. Weathering Corten A588, grade 50 steel will further complement the architectural vision for
the space as a preserved rustic ruin.
interior elevation sketches
steel screen to conceal structure foliated screen with 1 – 2 years’ growth and 10 years’ growth
Our main structural intervention stabilizes the walls, and sleeves an armature for
a foliated building inside the original perimeter, which is experienced as a green
clearing.
By lowering the threshold of the church windows punctuating the façade of the
north wall, the central spine of the site becomes a penetrable membrane wherein
there is visual and structural fluidity, a liminal passage threading between the two
landscapes.

MERIT AWARD
paving pattern studies
site survey site sketches
Ceramic tiles, perhaps the material that once enclosed the roof, will mark the ground
plane and create a densely packed walking surface that gradually spreads and
disperses across the site; the tile, fingering into the landscape in long thin drawn marks
as threads stitching the clearing back to the landscape of trees or a voice calling
across the distance.
In time, the hardness of the ceramic tiles will be overtaken by organic growth just
as the landscape itself will slowly encase the shell of the church.
Virginia Creeper Redbud
Seedum
Kentucky Coffeetree Stepables and Fragrant Herbs planting between pavers
Liriope Witchhazel
Small gestures reinforce the idea.
The interplay of stone, crushed aggregate, and ground
cover slowly dissolves into a thickly planted surface
studded with paving stones.
Randomly placed trees, highly branched and of varied
species, form a spatially complex canopy over the
entrance walk.
Understory trees and plants, like redbud and
witchhazel, register the seasons.
Evergreens dot the eastern edge and provide visual
separation and winter interest.
existing church

MERIT AWARD
The lighting scheme is designed to emphasize the union of the interior church
space and exterior landscape.
The intention is to reduce the impact of the north facing facade as barrier,
increase the perception of one congruent space, and draw the observer into
the church environment from the site.
The tree uplighting which is present throughout the exterior landscape is
continued into the church space, which provides continuity between the
spaces.
The rear and side interior walls of the church are washed to provide a glowing
back-drop, de-emphasize the front wall as barrier, and invite people inside.
The lighting scheme also provides focused illumination at key areas such as
entrances, stairways, and places of assembly to allow for safe movement
through the site.
Occupancy based security lights have been integrated into interior church space
to deter unauthorized entrance into the space. These will be inactive during
open hours on-site.
lighting plan
sound system studies
Within the church’s interior clearing a field of ground-installed speakers creates a
multi-channel recorded sound environment recalling the former habitation of the
human voice within the site.
Like geologic strata whose layers hold material trace and condensation in their
sedimenting of time, the ground of the open church remembers the traces of the
solo and choral voices that structured its gatherings.
Just as the voice structures the mass and marks the passing of time in the
liturgical year, a new composition drawing upon musical traditions both sacred and
secular will mark the first new sounding or calling of the space re-imagined.
The mouth, moving from silence to speech like the building opening to light,
invokes a vital act of culture—the opening of the mouth in singular and collective
vocalization making possible the revitalization of a neighborhood, marked once
again by the gathering of voices.

MERIT AWARD
site plan : initial phase north
west elevation : initial phase
A phased approach will include the
structural steel frame and concrete tie
beams, a support facility adjacent to
the path and site entry (including
restrooms, drinking fountains, and bike
racks), paths, lighting and vegetation.
The support facility and retaining wall
will be made of vertical board formed
reinforced concrete and is a
conceptual extension of the existing
retaining walls on site. A live vegetated
roof will be placed on the roof over the
interior spaces.
The initial phase is designed to
accommodate all the ultimate design
concept components, including the
ground installed speakers within the
open church.
aerial view : initial phase

MERIT AWARD

Atlanta History Center Eric R. Hoffman, AIA & Tony A. Patterson□ Atlanta, Georgia□MERIT AWARD
This work proposes a sensitive, low-scale addition to and existing
history museum in Atlanta.
This project gracefully envelops the existing facility with multiple
wing additions resulting in an elegant architectural expression.
While the interior spaces are somewhat undeveloped, the exterior
garden spaces would graciously complement the existing facility.
This project responds with great sensitivity to the brief as it was
presented in the competition package.
The ambition of the project – to create a much needed and missing
‘Center’ to this somewhat complex program and dispersed
composition of buildings – is successfully approached using well
selected and considered natural materials and the generation of
forms that fully engage siting and landscaped environment.

Atlanta History Center Eric R. Hoffman, AIA & Tony A. Patterson□ Atlanta, Georgia□MERIT AWARD

Foundation RiMED HOK Palermo, Italy TBD□ □ □MERIT AWARD
This work proposes a large translational research
facility on a prominent site in Sicily with spectacular
views of the Mediterranean.
The project creates a series of interlocked courtyards
and uses these spaces to organize the interior
circulation and diminish the mass of the facility.
The result is a carefully articulated large facility that
creates a series of garden-like exterior spaces with
amenities for the staff – all sharing the view.

Foundation RiMED HOK Palermo, Italy TBD□ □ □MERIT AWARD

Archipelago – Civic Squares, Civic Harbors □ STUDIO FINN □ Helsinki, FinlandHONOR AWARD
This non-commissioned project reconceives the south harbor of
Helsinki, Finland and proposes relocating traffic to a series of
subterranean passages, freeing up the ground plane for public,
pedestrian space.
The result is a remarkable transformation of a post-industrial site
to an inviting public space.
This urban design project - a response to an open international
call for ideas competition - responds to and reinterprets essential
characteristics of Helsinki’s public spaces, while retaining certain
key aspects of Helsinki’s great industrial South Harbor.
While the reworking of the subterranean infrastructure may well
have been too ambitions for the competition organizers, we
consider this “culvert”, when examined in full, to be well
considered and complex with respect to the design layers that it
offers to the site.

Archipelago – Civic Squares, Civic Harbors □ STUDIO FINN □ Helsinki, FinlandHONOR AWARD

European Spallation Source Research Center HOK / BIG□ □ Lund, SwedenHONOR AWARD
This project proposes a large scientific research facility in Lund, Sweden.
Largely subterranean, the plan clearly organizes a series of large, technically
sophisticated spaces around a central observation area.
The resulting form is more landform than architecture and represents a creative
and sensitive solution to a research facility surrounded by smaller scaled structures.
This project took first prize in an international design competition that included
first rank international architect and landscape practices.
The work is noteworthy for the integration of landscape and building elements
creating a system of courtyards that function to provide light, air and open spaces
for collaboration and engagement by scientist and researchers from 17 European
countries.
The project combines highly specific and technologically advances functions with
a landscaped sustainable architecture that does not forget the human being –
either in scale or sensorial measure.

European Spallation Source Research Center HOK / BIG□ □ Lund, SwedenHONOR AWARD

INTERIORS
Des Moines, Iowa
Des Moines, Iowa
Deborah Hauptmann
Ames, Iowa

Jacobs Corporate Offices Jacobs□ □ Pasadena, CA Turelk General Contracting□DISTINCTION
A clean aesthetic and orderly plan organization was used
to create a light and open suite of work, lounge and
meeting spaces for this corporate headquarters.
The design demonstrates a strong use of transparency and
daylight to bring richness to relatively common materials.
For an interior project of this scale, a limited material and
furnishing pallet is successfully utilized to create a
delightful variety of spatial environments.
The consistency of the light quality achieved within these
spaces of greatly varying proximity to exterior light is
equally well done.

Jacobs Corporate Offices Jacobs□ □ Pasadena, CA Turelk General Contracting□DISTINCTION

ShipWorks Nehring Design□ □ Saint Louis, Missouri JWJ Construction Services□MERIT AWARD
A clear plan organization allowed this corporate office to take
full advantage of a spectacular view of the Gateway Arch.
Nearly every space in the building is filled with daylight and
furnished with mid-century furniture.
This project provides a delightful environment to work.
The images and the description of this project meet each other
perfectly.
The interiors successfully mask the (probable) generic qualities
of the office building while generating creative and inspiring
spaces of flow and encounter.
The panoramic views are captured at times as distant views
and at other times as close-up backdrops.

ShipWorks Nehring Design□ □ Saint Louis, Missouri JWJ Construction Services□MERIT AWARD

American Card Services Eric Hoffman, AIA & Tony Patterson□ with AOR, LLC
St. Louis, Missouri Custom Alternatives, Inc.□
HONOR AWARD
This project is an exemplary project of rigor, restraint and resolve.
The project exhibits an extremely clear and resolved plan
organization and a limited, but refined material palette that sets
this project apart.
The work spaces are spare, but beautifully detailed.
The result is a sleek image within an industrial setting for a
remarkably low budget.
The exaggerated linearity of the primary work and visitor’s space
combined with the reduced and precisely handled material pallet
makes for a clean and exciting spatial environment.
The work is both bold and reserved.

American Card Services Eric Hoffman, AIA & Tony Patterson□ with AOR, LLC
St. Louis, Missouri Custom Alternatives, Inc.□
HONOR AWARD

ARCHITECTURE
Des Moines, Iowa
Des Moines, Iowa
Deborah Hauptmann
Ames, Iowa

adaptation: MAKE A HOUSE INTELLIGENT St. Louis, Missouri□
Eric R. Hoffman, AIA & R. Phillip Shinn with Peter MacKeith □ Tarlton Corporation
DISTINCTION
This project utilizes a modest, but inventive, structural system to
create a place and mark the entry to an exhibition about the
challenges confronting cities in the developing world.
The project is emblematic and suggests a way of building that is
simple, clear, and direct.
While small in scale, this project is large in impact and influence.
A remarkable small-scale intervention that exposes the potential
of design when enacted as an experiment in response to
asymmetrical urban, social and economic development.

adaptation: MAKE A HOUSE INTELLIGENT St. Louis, Missouri□
Eric R. Hoffman, AIA & R. Phillip Shinn with Peter MacKeith □ Tarlton Corporation
DISTINCTION

500 North Broadway □ St. Louis, MO □ Arcturis □ ARCODISTINCTION
This project reinvents the public spaces for a speculative
office building transforming them from dark and uninviting
to light and welcoming.
The result completely changes the character of an otherwise
unremarkable speculative office building.
The project is direct and efficient – utilizing lighting and a
very narrow material palette to fundamentally change the
image of the building.
This project accomplishes so much with so little.
The revision to the entry – at the same time an exterior and
interior intervention – successfully transforms the
streetscape, and, we believe, may fundamentally transform
the urban experience on this particular block as well.

500 North Broadway □ St. Louis, MO □ Arcturis □ ARCODISTINCTION

Kenrick Glennon Seminary Shrewsbury, MO□ □ Cannon Design □ BSI ConstructorsMERIT AWARD
This project repurposes existing space and creates a small
addition to a monastic educational setting.
The interior spaces are particularly effective, creating
inviting library, recreation, and lounge spaces out of
underutilized utilitarian spaces.
The addition is quiet and creatively contextual and presents
a wonderful rooftop dining space for users.
This project successfully takes the idea of “capturing found
space” and the desire to respect the traditional while
inserting, what the architect sees as, “small moments” of
the modern in a sympathetic and sensitive manner.

Kenrick Glennon Seminary Shrewsbury, MO□ □ Cannon Design □ BSI ConstructorsMERIT AWARD

MERIT AWARD Kenrick Glennon Seminary Shrewsbury, MO□ □ Cannon Design □ BSI Constructors

St. Louis Public Library St. Louis, MO□ □ Cannon Design □ BSI ConstructorsMERIT AWARD
This beautiful renovation of a Cass Gilbert library, repurposes stack and back-of-house spaces to create
contemporary reading rooms and media areas.
The vaulted halls are faithfully restored and equipped with current technology and lighting.
The historic reading room, where new shelving comfortably coexists with the historic architecture, is
particularly effective.
One key and convincing aspect of this renovation and addition to Cass Gilbert’s beautiful library of 1912
was to respond to Gilbert’s own concept of the “building within the building.”
The architects managed a delicate balance by seemingly floating the addition within a newly discovered
interior volume creating visual intersections of form and light.
An exceptional contemporary response to the light and lightness of Gilbert’s Beaux Arts inspired work.

St. Louis Public Library St. Louis, MO□ □ Cannon Design □ BSI ConstructorsMERIT AWARD

St. Louis Art Museum Renovation & Expansion □ St. Louis, Missouri
David Chipperfield Architects / HOK TPK□
HONOR AWARD
An elegantly detailed and conceived addition to the existing neo-classical museum
building that creates beautifully illuminated galleries for the exhibition of
contemporary artworks.
The addition is clearly contrasted with the original building but remains sympathetic.
The plan ingeniously connects to the existing structure and seamlessly extends its
circulation path. The apparent quality of light in the galleries is admirable and
creates a delightful experience for the observer.
This critically responsive project – “Virtually every design issue was driven by the
existing circulation and the art work requirements” – delightfully meets its aims.
There is little attempt by the to engage the aesthetics of the existing neo-classical
building; and yet, it is precisely due to its ability to ignore with sympathetic
resonance that makes it clear that the work is both mature, confident and resolved.
The work is at once elegant, understated and highly ‘present’.

St. Louis Art Museum Renovation & Expansion □ St. Louis, Missouri
David Chipperfield Architects / HOK TPK□
HONOR AWARD

AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS
ST. LOUIS CHAPTER
DISTINGUSIHED BUILDING AWARD

DISTINGUISHED BUILDING AWARD
Named for the famous team of explorers, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark,
the Lewis & Clark Branch opened on January 8, 1963. It is located less than five
miles from the historic take-off point of the party that pushed off into the
Missouri River to begin the exploration of the Louisiana Territory in May 1804.
Frederick Wallace Dunn, FAIA designed this iconic mid- century building – a
multi-level 16,000 square foot structural steel building – as an elegant, efficient
plan housed under a mono-pitch roof with maximum natural daylight provided
by a continuous clearstory above the book stacks.
Dunn’s design reinforced the significance of the building’s namesakes and our
country’s history by integrating stain glass figures into east facing clearstory
windows in his site specific design response. The stain glass windows, which set
the Lewis and Clark Branch apart from any other building in the system, were
designed by Robert Harmon and constructed and installed by Emil Frei &
Associates. The glass is colored through high temperature immersion of oxides
into the glass itself, producing a colored window that does not fade or scratch.
This building stands as a model of the integration of Art and Architecture and
remains in use to this day, elegant and efficient in its beautifully resolved and
inspirational design.
Lewis & Clark Branch Library □ Frederick Dunn, FAIA, Architect

DISTINGUISHED BUILDING AWARD
Lewis & Clark Branch Library □ Frederick Dunn, FAIA, Architect

AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS
ST. LOUIS CHAPTER
DISTINGUSIHED BUILDING AWARD
Quinta Scott, Daughter of Frederick Wallace Dunn, FAIA, Architect
Steven Frei, Emil Frei & Associates, Stained Glass Artisans
Kristen Sorth, Interim Director, St. Louis County Public Library

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